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GeoTrust Extended Validation (EV) $299 per year (2 year max)

Categories: Best Practices & Advice Design & Development Features & Updates Security Seo & Miva Merchant Services
June 21st, 2010 by Eric Mandell

GeoTrust Extended Validation (EV) $299 per yearORDER GeoTrust EV SSL: $299 A YEAR

This is great news for anyone that has been looking to add an EV SSL certificate to their Miva Merchant shopping cart. GeoTrust has authorized Morditech to offer their True BizID Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificate at the rate of $299 a year for a maximum of 2 years. This is the SSL certificate that GeoTrust offers for $899 a year which you can see on their website here: http://geotrust.com/ssl/extended-validation-ssl/
This is the SSL that makes the address bar glow green which is intended to boost online transactions by instilling extra customer confidence in your website.
Click here to order this certificate and learn more about it.

Turns the address bar GREEN in web browser
Toll Free Phone Support
EV Upgrader™ included
Your company’s name embedded in True Site seal
Compatible with 99% of all browsers in use today
Compatible with popular mobile devices
$150,000.00 Warranty
Fully owned roots.
   

What is an EV SSL Certificate?

Extended Validation or "EV" is the new standard developed and agreed upon by the major
Certificate Authorities (like GeoTrust® and VeriSign®) and the major browser vendors to authenticate and issue next-generation SSL certificates.

EV SSL certificates help protect your site from phishing scams and assure your customers that
they are dealing with a business or organization that has been thoroughly checked out using the New EV standard.
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How often does Google Crawl a website

Categories: Best Practices & Advice Google Seo & Miva Merchant Videos
May 11th, 2010 by admin

A question many of my hosting clients ask me is how often Google and other search engines crawl their site and how they can change how frequently they are crawled.

Matt Cutts from Google answers this question in the following video.

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Is a sale page flagged as duplicate content

Categories: Best Practices & Advice Google Seo & Miva Merchant Videos tips
May 3rd, 2010 by admin

According to Google ‘Sale’ pages which contain 1 or more duplicate products that you have in other categories will not be considered duplicate content. In this video Matt Cutts explains that the Google web crawlers are smart enough to recognize that the information on the sale page serves a different purpose than the original product or category page as long as it is within reason.

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Control Scan Forced to Discontinue Many of It’s Site Seals

Categories: Security
March 17th, 2010 by admin

Control Scan sent out the following letter on March 17, 2010

This letter is to tell you that we recently settled Federal Trade Commission (FTC) allegations that certain of our privacy and security seals were deceptive. Among other things, the FTC, the nation’s consumer protection agency, alleged that our Privacy Protected, Privacy Reviewed, Business Background Reviewed, and Registered Member seals falsely claimed to consumers that we had verified the privacy and security of the websites displaying them, when, in many instances, we had not.

We already have discontinued these seals, so you should not be displaying them. If you are still displaying any of these seals on your website, you must remove them immediately.

You may continue to display the Verified Secure seal.

If you have questions about this matter, please contact Joan Herbig at 800-825-3301 ext

ControlScan forced to discontinue many issued site seals

Screen Shot of letter sent to Control Scan customers from support@controlscan.com

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Try Us You’ll Love it! Free Miva Merchant Hosting for 3 Months plus a free SSL Certificate.

Categories: Best Practices & Advice Features & Updates Off Topic
March 8th, 2010 by Eric Mandell

Morditech is offering the absolute best Miva Merchant Hosting deal there has ever been. We are so sure that you will love our service that we are not only giving you 3 Months of FREE Miva Merchant web hosting but we will also transfer your website and Miva Merchant store free of charge. There is no down time when you switch your hosting to Morditech. We will never charge you any extra fees, hidden fees, or setup Fees.

Our Miva Merchant stores are the fastest, most secure, and most reliable available. Try us out risk free and we will prove it to you. We are offering a 30 day unconditional money back guarantee. There is absolutely nothing to lose. If you already host with us then you can add a new store or transfer a store to us and receive the same benefits as a new customer. You can even sign up for our referral program and send friends and colleagues to us and get cash for it. Sign up for our referral program here. If you have questions or comments please send us an email or use our live help button at the top of our homepage or visit our support center.

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PCI Compliance Scans Are Flagging Non-compliant Versions Of Miva Merchant

Categories: Miva Merchant Admin PCI Compliance
January 29th, 2010 by Eric Mandell

Up until now it seems that even non PCI Compliant versions of Miva Merchant were not getting flagged by some PCI Compliance scannig agencies such as SecurityMetrics. We came across a site that was being flagged as having ‘Possible blind sql injection’ and it was followed by a bunch links to the merchant Miva Merchant store.  Often times the PCI Compliance scanners do raise false positives and in fact this is one of those times but  simply running the latest streaming update from Miva within the Miva Merchant admin allowed this site to pass the scan. Your other option is to contact your PCI scanning company and alert them that this is a false positive and hopefully they comply. You should check with a Miva specialist to make sure the streaming updates will not conflict with any modules or customization that have been made to your store. It is also good practice to check that your additional modules are updated to the latest versions as well.

ALERT: Security Metrics PCI Compliance Scanning is now picking up on non-compliant versions of Miva Merchant.

SOLUTION: Stream the latest Miva Merchant updates from the Miva Admin (If it has been a while since the last time you ran the updates and your store is customized you may want to check with your web master or Miva Specialist before running the updates).

Problem Summary per Security Metrics:
Possible blind sql injection on http://www.domain.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Category_Code=100&Current_Product_Code=&Store_Code=NTFL&Screen=OINF&Offset=&Attributes=Yes&%3FAction=ADPR style=”display: none;”> wp –bsql “http://www.domain.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Category_Code=100&Current_Product_Code=&Store_Code=NTFL&Screen=OINF&Offset=&Attributes=Yes&%3FAction=ADPR” “http://www.domain.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Category_Code=100&Current_Product_Code=&Store_Code=NTFL&Screen=OINF+and+1%3D1&Offset=&Attributes=Yes&%3FAction=ADPR” “http://www.domain.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Category_Code=100&Current_Product_Code=&Store_Code=NTFL&Screen=OINF+and+1%3D0&Offset=&Attributes=Yes&%3FAction=ADPR” POST cat <<EOF > bsql.sh curl -L -d “Category_Code=100&Current_Product_Code=&Store_Code=NTFL&Screen=OINF&Offset=&Attributes=Yes&%3FAction=ADPR” “http://www.domain.com/Merchant2/merchant

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Allow Email Address As Login Name

Categories: Best Practices & Advice
January 7th, 2010 by Eric Mandell

You can allow customers to use their email address and special characters in their login name.

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Make Your Miva Merchant Store Extremely SEO Friendly

Categories: Best Practices & Advice Google How To Miva Merchant Admin Seo & Miva Merchant
January 5th, 2010 by admin

Check out our Miva Merchant SEO Tune Up on Sale for $399 – Let Morditech Make your Miva Merchant SEO Friendly

Finally, there is a list of SEO recommendations to implement on your Miva Merchant store to make it more appealing to search engines when they crawl your site. Miva Merchant is not completely search engine ready straight out of the box. The Miva Merchant SEO recommendations made here are my opinions based on 10 years of experience working with hundreds of Miva Merchant stores. There is no guarantee that implementing these changes on your site will get you top search engine listings because that is mostly dependant on you and  your content and of course your competitors but I will guarantee that using these techniques will get you better search engine rankings than you have now.

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Miva Merchant and Blogging with WordPress

Categories: Best Practices & Advice Seo & Miva Merchant
January 1st, 2010 by admin

WordPress Blogging and Miva Merchant

A great quick way of getting crawled by search engines is to create a blog with wonderfully originally content.

If it seems like you have done everything you can yet you are still not getting crawled as often as you would like then you should add a blog to your website. Blog’s have a tendency to get crawled quickly especially if you submit a sitemap to the major search engines every time you post a new article. Often times your new articles and posts will get crawled that day.

I recommend WordPress because it is very SEO friendly straight out of the box as they say and it is absolutely free. We allow you to add WordPress automatically through our control panel. WordPress is extremely easy to use and you can add media such as images, videos, links to video etc. It has a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface option for those that do not know how to code in HTML.

Remember original content is always king. Since you can categorize your posts and links in a blog it is usually ok to post about ‘off topic’ subjects which really broaden your keywords and phrases. If you are trying to sell products on your site then you should stay away from controversial subjects. Don’t make it all off topic though. You do want to post articles that are relates to your Miva Merchant store and to your products and categories. The purpose of a blog is not only to get crawled but to create interaction with people that are browsing your site. If you post interesting material then you will get visitors and comments from your visitors.

The more frequently you post the better and put links to your products or categories whenever possible so that your Miva Merchant store is crawled when your blog is crawled.
Good luck, have fun and POST!

Morditech offers WordPress webhosting. Contact us for more information.

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Tweet up your WordPress Blog

Categories: Best Practices & Advice How To WordPress WordPress Blogging
December 5th, 2009 by admin

I found a great new plugin for WordPress that allows you to display your latest tweets in your sidebar, post tweets from your sidebar or within the WordPress admin and also automatically tweets your new WordPress posts. It seems to have everything you need for your Twitter and WordPress integration all built in.

The name of the plugin is “Twitter Tools” and you can check it out here: http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress

In addition you can add a twitter “Follow Us” type badge to your blog like the one you see here on the right of the page. I used WP-TwitterBadge but there are several out there that all seem to do the same thing.

Have fun and tweet amongst yourselves!

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